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Additive Manufacturing

Nine new innovation “ambassadors” were congratulated into the ranks of America Makes this week.

The Youngstown-based institute has announced the recipients of its 2026 Ambassador Awards and Distinguished Collaborator Award.

A national additive manufacturing institute, America Makes trains young engineers and conducts research into additive...

3D Printing Industry
Additive Manufacturing

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected 25 project teams for a $10.5 million program intended to expand the US defense industrial base for metal additive manufacturing.

The Joint Additive Qualification for Sustainment – Supplier Qualification Groups 2 and 3 project, or JAQS-SQ, will...

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Manufacturing

A new architecture for American industrial policy is taking shape, and it is being built from the ground up. The old model treated research and development (R&D) as a national objective to be managed from Washington. Over the last 15 years, U.S. innovation policy has increasingly recognized innovation as inherently regional, rooted in the...

Hoodline Minneapolis
Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing

Maple Grove is getting a very 21st-century kind of factory: one where microbes, corn sugar, and fermentation could help produce plastics, chemicals, aviation materials, and even cement. The ambitious project is designed to tackle a stubborn problem in American manufacturing — plenty of promising biotechnology gets developed in U.S. labs, but not...